The Business of Sleep: How Sleeping Better Can Transform Your Career

Vicki Culpin explores the science of sleep and the affect that poor sleep can have on companies and careers.

The Enterprise of Sleep offers sensible methods of mitigating in opposition to or lowering the affect of compromised sleep in organizational environments. Margaret Thatcher might famously have been in a position to make do with 5 hours an evening, however for many individuals that little quantity of sleep can–even within the quick term–have severe and damaging side-effects. Main disasters have occurred because of poor sleep (from the destruction of the Challenger area shuttle to nuclear meltdowns reminiscent of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island), however extra prevalent results can embody well being issues, the rise of despair, and poor reminiscence retention.

For companies and their staff, the affect will be extraordinarily detrimental–from the unfavorable affect on decision-making and communication expertise, to manner wherein the shortage of sleep can stifle creativity and innovation. Drawing on each seminal and cutting-edge analysis, alongside interviews with notable CEOs and enterprise influencers, The Enterprise of Sleep explains what the analysis tells us about how sleep works and the affect that lack of sleep can have in your work and profession.